Vintage shipping tag birth announcement

Thank you all for the sweet comments about my laundry room. Now that it's done, I have a grand total of two fully decorated rooms in the house. And we've lived here for 6 years. See what I mean about nothing getting done around here? The only rooms that are DONE are the laundry room and the guest room, which are not coincidentally small rooms that we are rarely in and that I have total design control over, without having to satisfy anyone else's desires or sensibilities other than my own. The rest of the house is a lot more challenging.

Today I wanted to share a bit of ephemera. I picked it up at the bad vibe estate sale from a few weeks ago. The woman who lived in this house must have literally saved every single letter or card she had ever received--I've never seen anything like it. Her husband was a pastor and therefore must have known a lot of people, many of whom sent cards and announcements and I think they kept them all. An ephemera-lover's dream, that was. It was really overwhelming to go through all that old paper but I did find this little treat, the cutest darn birth announcement I've ever seen. Here's the address side:

And here's the information side.

So cute, right? Be sure to click on it to enlarge the picture so you can read it. It really is on a normal-sized shipping tag!

You could do the same thing and it would be just as cute today, 56 years later. Of course the USPS wouldn't be thrilled to have you send a shipping tag with a string attached through all of their machinery, but you could slip it into a clear cellophane envelope and send it through the mail to delighted recipients. Maybe for my next baby? I didn't send out announcements with the first two, but this idea is so darn cute that I might not be able to pass it up! (and no, I'm not expecting!)